Subject:
Re: new driver epson iscan style
From:
Stealth Dave ####@####.####
Date:
30 Jun 2002 18:22:57 -0000
Message-Id: <1025460653.3015.11.camel@skull1.stealthdave.com>
I was having the same problem. You need to remove or comment out any
driver lines in the plustek.conf file and add them to the epson.conf
file. Even though the 1250 series uses the Plustek chipset, the iscan
drivers still use the epson.conf file. That *should* get it working for
you.
- Stealth Dave
On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 06:44, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Sorry about that other, very bulky post, I was frustrated with
> messing around with the "official" epson iscan driver for the last
> month.
>
> Anyway, I edited every Makefile I could find in the tree and made it
> use gcc296, and that built and installed, although I see I did miss
> a version number in my editing, but I don't know as thats
> important.
>
> However, attempting ####@####.#### run it, I get a "could not send to scanner"
> advisory, and "scanimage --help -d epson" after setting the debug
> level to 12 gets me this:
> ---------------
> [root@coyote sane.d]# scanimage --help -d epson
> Usage: scanimage [OPTION]...
>
> Start image acquisition on a scanner device and write PNM image data
> to
> standard output.
>
> -b, --batch[=FORMAT] working in batch mode, FORMAT is
> `out%d.pnm' or
> `out%d.tif' by default depending on
> --format
> --batch-start=# page number to start naming files with
> --batch-count=# how many pages to scan in batch mode
> --batch-increment=# increase number in filename by an amount
> of #
> --batch-double increment page number by two for 2sided
> originals
> being scanned in a single sided scanner
> --format=pnm|tiff file format of output file
> -d, --device-name=DEVICE use a given scanner device (e.g.
> hp:/dev/scanner)
> -h, --help display this help message and exit
> -L, --list-devices show available scanner devices
> -f, --formatted-device-list=FORMAT similar to -L, but the FORMAT of
> the output
> can be specified: %d (device name), %v
> (vendor),
> %m (model), %t (type), and %i (index
> number)
> -T, --test test backend thoroughly
> -v, --verbose give even more status messages
> -V, --version print version information
> --accept-md5-only only accept authorization requests using
> md5
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epson to 12.
> [epson] sane_init: iscan 1.0.6 <--note bad version number
> [epson] sane_init, ># epson.conf<
> [epson] sane_init, >#<
> [epson] sane_init, ># here are some examples for how to configure
> the EPSON backend<
> [epson] sane_init, >#<
> [epson] sane_init, ># SCSI scanner:<
> [epson] sane_init, ># scsi EPSON<
> [epson] sane_init, >#<
> [epson] sane_init, ># Parallel port scanner:<
> [epson] sane_init, >#pio 0x278<
> [epson] sane_init, >#pio 0x378<
> [epson] sane_init, >#pio 0x3BC<
> [epson] sane_init, >#<
> [epson] sane_init, ># USB scanner - only enable this if you have an
> EPSON scanner. It could<
> [epson] sane_init, ># otherwise block your non-EPSON
> scanner from being<
> [epson] sane_init, ># recognized.<
> [epson] sane_init, >USB /dev/usb/scanner0<
> [epson] sane_init, >USB /dev/usb/scanner0<
> [epson] attach(USB /dev/usb/scanner0)
> [epson] SANE Epson Backend v1.3.0ek - 2002-6-10
> [epson] attach(USB /dev/usb/scanner0)
> [epson] attach: opening USB /dev/usb/scanner0
> [epson] attach: open failed: Invalid argument
> [epson] sane_open()
> scanimage: open of device epson failed: Invalid argument
> Type ``scanimage --help -d DEVICE'' to get list of all options for
> DEVICE.
>
> [epson] sane_get_devices()
> List of available devices:
> plustek:/dev/usb/scanner0
> [root@coyote sane.d]#
> ---------------------------------
>
> It looks as if I have a .conf file foobared, but no idea comes to
> mind, help please.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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